CULTIVARS: CHEMICAL PROPERTIES, ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES AND HEALTH BENEFITS -- CULTIVARS: CHEMICAL PROPERTIES, ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES AND HEALTH BENEFITS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: VEGETABLE BREEDING FOR NUTRITIONAL QUALITY AND HEALTH BENEFITS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MAJOR CLASSES OF PHYTONUTRICEUTICALS IN VEGETABLES AND HEALTH BENEFITS -- 3. NUTRITIONAL QUALITY AND HEALTH BENEFITS OF VEGETABLES -- 4.VEGETABLE BREEDING FOR NUTRITIONAL QUALITY, INCREASING INTAKE OF NUTRIENTS AND HEALTH BENEFITS -- 5. TRANSGENIC VEGETABLES AND NUTRITIONAL HEALTH BENEFITS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION AND VARIETAL TRACEABILITY IN PROCESSED FOODS: A MOLECULAR APPROACH -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CATEGORIES OF MOLECULAR MARKERS -- RAPD AND SCAR MARKERS -- ISSR MARKERS -- AFLP MARKERS -- MICROSATELLITES OR SSR MARKERS -- SAMPL MARKERS -- SNP MARKERS -- VARIETAL CHARACTERIZATION OF WHEAT BY CLASSICAL METHODS -- VARIETAL CHARACTERIZATION OF WHEAT BY MOLECULAR MARKERS -- DEVELOPMENT OF WHEAT MICROSATELLITES -- TRANSFERABILITY OF MICROSATELLITES TO DURUM WHEAT -- SET UP OF LARGE DATABASES OF MICROSATELLITE PROFILES -- CULTIVAR TRACEABILITY IN PASTA AND BREAD -- THE NEW FRONTIER: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF SNP MARKERS -- SNP MARKERS IN OTHER CROPS: APPLICATION TO OLIVE CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION AND OLIVE OIL TRACEABILITY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: ANTIOXIDANT COMPOUNDS AND NUTRACEUTICAL BENEFITS OF MEDITERRANEAN RED FRUIT -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. OXIDATIVE STRESS IN HUMANS -- 3. MAIN TYPES OF ANTIOXIDANTS -- 4. ANTIOXIDANTS IN MEDITERRANEAN RED FRUITS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 4: PHYTOCHEMICAL PROFILES AND ANTIRADICAL CAPACITY OF GRAPE SEED EXTRACTS FROM DIFFERENT ITALIAN CULTIVARS: REUSING OF WINERY BY-PRODUCTS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PHYTOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GRAPE BERRY -- 3. PHYTOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GRAPE SEEDS -- 4. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF GRAPE SEED PHENOLICS FOR HUMAN HEALTH -- 5. FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE NUTRACEUTICAL CONTENT OF GRAPE SEEDS -- 6. GENOTYPE EFFECT -- 7. ENVIRONMENT EFFECT -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: COMMON BEANS: ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY AND HEALTH CONNECTION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY -- HEALTH CONNECTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND HEALTH BENEFITS OF ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS IN CULTIVAR SEED OILS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS -- PHYTOSTEROLS (DESM, DIMS, ET MMS) -- SQUALENE -- POLYPHENOLS -- FLAVONOID DERIVATIVES -- STILBENES DERIVATIVE (RESVERATROL) -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PHENOLIC PROFILE AND ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL OF SIX TUNISIAN AUTOCHTHONOUS OLIVE CULTIVARS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: STUDY OF THE OXIDATIVE STABILITY OF ALMONDS BASED ON DIFFERENT PARAMETERS AND TECHNIQUES: APPLICATION TO CULTIVAR AUTHENTICITY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: DIFFERENT CULTIVARS OF THE SAME SPECIES OF PLANT MAY PRODUCE PROTEINS THAT DIFFER IN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: CORN BIOTECHNOLOGY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HERBICIDE RESISTANT CORN USING EFFICIENT TRANSFORMATION PROTOCOLS -- TRANSGENIC CORN AS A SOURCE OF VACCINE.

REGULATION FOR RELEASE AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF TRANSGENIC CROPS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11: INFLUENCE OF NITRATE ON NODULE STRUCTURE AND NITRATE REDUCTASE ACTIVITY IN A PEANUT CULTIVAR -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- INDUCTION OF SENESCENCE IN THE PEANUT NODULES BY EFFECT OF NITRATE -- REDUCTION OF NITRATE IN THE PEANUT NODULES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12: FATTY ACID UN-SATURATION IN THE RESPONSE OF TOMATO TO TEMPERATURE STRESS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PLANT RESISTANCE MECHANISM TO HEAT STRESS -- EFFECT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE ON TOMATO PRODUCTION -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.